Waking up from 6 hrs of sleep and a feeling that you want to throw up is a pretty good way to start your day.  Obviously, i sprint upstairs for coffee and grab my morning cigarette.  After the Cig, i immediately start to spit up the nasty taste of nicotine/cig left in my mouth.  Too graphic?  This is a normal life of a fcking degenerate gambler.   in january, i thought i could change my life.  My goals for 2012 were:  1.Excercise 5 days a week  2.Meditate daily  3.Stop smoking cig  4.Not to tilt 5. no sports betting   1) I figured i could knock out like 2/5.  Im a realist, not a complete idiot. SO lets start with the excercise.  Let me  paint a pretty picture of a 5'6 3/4 200 lb gray haired beast that sits all day [More...]

  Been a long time since my last post and I have had a crazy roller coaster ride the last three months. Had my biggest month profit wise (2nd in lock 100k=luckbox) followed by my worst month of hemoraging HU and in high buy in 6-mans.  Lets face it, the losing month was way more painful than the highs of an even bigger month of winnings before. so std, so std.   Transitioning into 6-mans has been a long and brutal process.  Im just not used to the variance of turbos and it has been a headache to deal with.  January I actually moved down in stakes and was game selecting  a bit more and have found success playing non-turbos.  My days are longer, but mentally it has been a  burden off my shoulders.  That has been the key for me.  Mental exhaustion can [More...]

November 2 2011 Day 2 started off a little bit later at (10am) as i was catching up on episodes of Workaholics and Bored to death.  With some extra sleep and the incentive that i would get to watch xfactor after work, i was pumped to get my grind on. The morning started off slowly as games were filling at a "turtle" like pace.  For those of you that are new to poker I will explain what i do when i first open up my Lockpoker account.  I literally will register (sit) in every 6 max sitngo from $30 to $200.  Its around 30 games which sounds like a lot, but the most i will get running is 12, before i will unregister from the rest of the games.  The point in sitting in 30 games at a time is [More...]

Hello TPE! Marc Alioto aka "aznallin007" doing my first blog post for Tournamentpokeredge.com.  I have been a professional sit' n go grinder for 3-4 years now and i am going to be documenting my play for the month of November.  I am currently switching to 6/10 man turbos and 10 man dons because 6 man dons have ended.  For those of you that don't know anything about me, you should check the podcast i was in here: http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/podcasts/ My grammar is pretty bad, so bear with me through this adventure into the mind of a grinder. My goal is to get players/members from the TPE community to understand a different side of poker.  Most people read about final tables and big scores.  I am here to show you that with hard work and dedication, one can become a winner without the [More...]